A significant development in Frontier Partisans cinema has been announced since the traps were last checked… HBO Films’ long-in-the-works Deadwood movie has begun production 12 years after the end of the premium network’s Emmy-winning Western series from David Milch. Most of that original cast is returning for the film, which takes place 10 years … [Read more...]

    Washington, Monday, Nov. 11, 2:48 A.M.--The armistice between Germany, on the one hand, and the allied Governments and the United States, on the other, has been signed. The State Department announced at 2:45 o'clock this morning that Germany had signed. The department's announcement simply said: "The armistice has been … [Read more...]

These days, I’m reluctant to plug in in the morning. Watching the Republic fray and flounder from the inside ain’t exactly edifying, y’know? The “news” is lame and depressing enough — checking the Facebook feed can, in my friend Craig Rullman’s parlance, make you want to shave off your eyebrows. Except... Every once in a while Hillary Klug … [Read more...]

The trapline is set in the cold waters of a Scottish burn this month. The Outlander Season 4 premier is on November 4, and the trailers continue to indicate a fine rendering of the North Carolina frontier, where our intrepid Highlander couple lands after many a perilous … [Read more...]

By all accounts, the semi-ruined Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale, Scotland, is a grim, gloomy and forbidding place. Sinister, even. Well it ought to be, for the history of the keep and the land about is soaked in blood. Not for nothing was the Hermitage called “the guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain.” The fortress was a key … [Read more...]

I adore my wife. Marilyn is everything a man could want in a life partner and I am grateful every day to have spent the past 26 years in her company. Not least of her charms is her willingness — nay, eagerness — to not merely indulge the eccentricities of a frontier-obsessed scribbler and woodsrunner, but to actively encourage them. The least … [Read more...]

Thanks to a tip from Italian Front scout Davide Mana, I picked up the first Dark Horse Conan Omnibus for $2 on Monday. The first story is Born on a Battlefield, depicting the Cimmerian’s youth. The art is by Greg Ruth and I like it very much. Ruth also illustrated the Ethan Hawke Apache Wars graphic novel, Indeh, which was a disappointment — but … [Read more...]

Moving is a pain in the ass, no getting around that. But there’s something strangely satisfying in it, too. There’s the getting rid of “stuff,” of course — it is fine to lighten the load. But more than that, I still feel that sense of possibility that comes with pulling up stakes. Speaking of which… • STARZ has teased the opening title … [Read more...]

  “I saw a magnificent woman on a beautiful black horse Lozen, sister of Victorio. Lozen, the woman warrior! High above her head she held her rifle. There was a glitter as her right foot lifted and struck the shoulder of her horse. He reared, then plunged into the torrent. She turned his head upstream, and he began swimming.” — James … [Read more...]

I don’t know what I think about this. From Deadline Hollywood: Mel Gibson has been set by Warner Bros to direct The Wild Bunch, a new version of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah-directed classic Western. Gibson is writing the script with Bryan Bagby. Gibson will be executive producer. In The Wild Bunch, an aging group of outlaws look for one last big … [Read more...]